{"id":648857,"date":"2013-03-26T09:31:45","date_gmt":"2013-03-26T13:31:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=391731"},"modified":"2013-03-26T09:31:45","modified_gmt":"2013-03-26T13:31:45","slug":"why-carriers-love-smartphones-mobile-data-to-exceed-40-of-total-service-revenue-by-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/648857","title":{"rendered":"Why carriers love smartphones: Mobile data to exceed 40% of total service revenue by 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/03\/26\/mobile-data-revenue-estimates-abi-391731\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"580\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/bgr-best-smartphones-2012.jpg?w=650&amp;h=580&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Mobile Data Revenue Estimates\" title=\"Smartphones\" \/><\/a><\/center>Wireless carriers have played a huge role in the proliferation of smartphones and tablets in recent years, and that fact that these devices make our lives easier is hardly their motive. According to a new report from market research firm ABI Research, revenue from mobile data is expected to balloon 21.4% between 2012 and 2014, at which time it will account for 40.4% of the $1 trillion spent globally on cell phone services.\u00a0&#8220;By offering unlimited voice calls and texts, while making data the only component in a bundled plan with positive marginal costs to consumers, wireless operators as <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/att\">AT&amp;T<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=T\">T<\/a>) and <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/verizon\">Verizon<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=VZ\">VZ<\/a>) help to prop up voice and messaging, making positive revenue contributions in the short to medium-term,&#8221; ABI research associate Ying Kang Tan said.\u00a0&#8220;Rich Communication Services (RCS) and voice and messaging APIs are a key part of their strategy of making carrier-based calls and messaging relevant to their customers.&#8221;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/LF0qp4SFpl8\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wireless carriers have played a huge role in the proliferation of smartphones and tablets in recent years, and that fact that these devices make our lives easier is hardly their motive. According to a new report from market research firm ABI Research, revenue from mobile data is expected to balloon 21.4% between 2012 and 2014, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}